Seventeen-year-old Matthew Cline, who committed suicide in July, could have been saved if the Huntington Beach Police Department had acted differently, Cline's parents allege in a Nov. 13 legal complaint.
Police failed to warn the family when they...

Re. "Family sues city after son's suicide" (Nov. 21): There is no greater pain for a parent than to lose a child by suicide. No one will ever understand what motivated 17-year-old Matthew Cline to shoot himself. Sometimes all it takes is for a coach,...

Huntington Beach police believe a man might have committed suicide in the Dog Beach parking lot Tuesday morning.
Authorities released few details about the incident but said a parking officer found the man shortly after 9 a.m. in a vehicle parked...

The victims of an apparent murder-suicide Dec. 14 in Huntington Beach have been identified as a married couple who were going through a divorce.
Huntington Beach Police Sgt. Chad Nichols said the victims were Robert Saltarelli, 55, and his wife, Tonie,...

Next year, as in the past, the HB Reads program will spotlight a group of people who are often invisible in everyday life.
This time, though, they won't be miles away in Sudan or Afghanistan, toiling on a migrant farm or secluded in a special-education class.
The citywide reading program, which selects a book every year with a diversity and human-rights theme, has turned its attention for next year to victims of bullying — a group that may include countless members of the readership, even if...

Jay Asher was never involved in bullying in school, either as a victim or a perpetrator. At least, he thinks he wasn't.
But after the emotional journey the author went through in crafting his young-adult novel, "Thirteen Reasons Why," he can't entirely say for sure.
Asher, whose novel is next year's selection for the HB Reads citywide book program, got part of the story's inspiration when a female relative attempted suicide as a teenager. When the relative tried to explain her decision, she gave a...

Fans are mourning the death of Mitch Lucker, a vocalist for the heavy metal band Suicide Silence who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Huntington Beach.
Memorials were held in Riverside and Huntington Beach on Thursday night. On Main Street in Huntington Beach, scores held up candles and placed written messages.
The band posted a statement on its Facebook page Thursday morning reading, "There's no easy way to say this. Mitch passed away earlier this morning from injuries sustained during a...

Huntington Beach police believe an elderly man shot and killed himself Friday near the Bolsa Chica Reserve, according to police.
Authorities said they received a phone call at 12:18 p.m. from a resident who heard gunshots near a dead-end section of Graham Street near the northeast side of the reserve.
A suicide note was found near the body and the elderly man died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said.
--Anthony Clark Carpio